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Web hosting built for Ireland
What actually differs when your order comes from Ireland: the local domains we can register, what your card is charged, the distance to our servers, how tax applies, and which payment methods we still can't accept.
Local Differences
Buying from Ireland, point by point
This isn't a template with the country swapped in. Each line below shifts with where you're ordering from.
Local domain endings
Registering your national ending isn't possible through us at the moment. Live in the EU? Then .eu is available to you on this page.
Prices in your currency
Figures display in EUR; the card is billed in USD. The conversion happens at your bank, which may add a fee of its own.
How far our servers sit
About 5–15 ms for the round trip. Instant. Nothing serves a British or Irish audience better than this.
Support on your clock
GMT/IST, which is the same clock our team works to. First replies target 2 hours in English, day or night.
Local Endings
What your national ending costs
Numbers pulled directly from our live price list — no rounded estimates.
| Domain ending | Year one |
|---|---|
| .eu | $8.99open to anyone resident inside the EU |
See the full price list — all 65 of the endings on our list, without exception.
Unique to Ireland
Details that apply in this market only
Dublin sits roughly 10 ms from our London servers, and hardly any city anywhere is closer, so a site here behaves much as it would on Irish hosting. One gap, stated plainly: we do not sell .ie. Being an EU resident, you can register .eu, which we do offer, and .com stays the sensible default for most people.
Operating in Ireland
Beyond price and ping
The parts of running a site here that a plan comparison never covers.
Close on the map, outside the bloc on paper
On distance, Irish buyers get the best version of the story. On law, the most awkward. Physically, London is about as close as an overseas origin gets. Legally, the United Kingdom counts as a third country: order from Ireland and your site's data is processed outside the EU. Better to write that into your own privacy notice now than to meet it halfway through somebody else's audit.
For a brochure site, a portfolio or a small store, this is admin rather than difficulty: our data processing agreement covers the transfer and names where the processing happens. It turns into a genuine blocker on a project whose impact assessment insists on EU-only storage, which usually means public sector work or health data. If that is the brief you are working to, rule us out now and spare yourself the review cycle.
- London is where the processing sits, so record the transfer in your privacy notice and your processing records
- The location is written plainly into our DPA, not hidden away in a subprocessor annexe
- We carry no .ie, though as an EU resident you can take a .eu, and .com asks no eligibility test of anyone
At Checkout
Payment methods that work at checkout, and those that don't
Where our supported methods diverge from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Any Visa, Mastercard or American Express card, credit or debit alike, issued in Ireland or anywhere else, provided the issuer has enabled international payments on it. Stripe handles the transaction end to end, so those digits never land on our servers.
Not supported yet
Cards issued in Ireland clear without fuss. What is missing is PayPal, a first choice for plenty of buyers here, and something we still cannot take.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Ireland want to know
Does ordering work from Ireland?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Ireland are all accepted, and provisioning fires automatically the second payment clears — no manual approval step, no need to be anywhere near the UK. Prices display in EUR so you can judge the cost; the actual charge reaches your card in USD.
Which payment methods are common in Ireland, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Cards issued in Ireland clear without fuss. What is missing is PayPal, a first choice for plenty of buyers here, and something we still cannot take. The one method that always works is a card enabled for international payments. Better to know that now than after an hour spent comparing plans.
How fast will pages load for visitors in Ireland?
Our hardware runs in London, roughly 5–15 ms away. Instant. Nothing serves a British or Irish audience better than this. For a first-time visitor pulling a cached page, the gap barely registers — an edge node near them can serve it. Where distance does show up is logged-in activity: the WordPress dashboard, a checkout, anything uncacheable, because each of those actions makes the full London round trip. Our infrastructure page breaks down what a CDN speeds up and what it cannot touch.
Will tax be added to an order from Ireland?
Order from inside the EU and VAT may apply. Where it does, the amount is worked out and shown at checkout before a penny leaves your account, so nothing gets bolted on afterwards. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Put in your number and the reverse charge takes care of it.
Do I need a UK address to hold an account?
No. The company running things is British — Vitalcare at Home Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15098204, verifiable on the public Companies House register — yet buying hosting involves no residency check and no business-registration check. An order from Ireland processes exactly like one from London.
What happens if the plan doesn't suit me?
Hosting plans give you 30 days to change your mind, reseller plans 7. That is long enough to put a real site live and measure it against your own traffic instead of taking our figures on trust. Still not convinced? Ask for your money back. Domain registrations are the one exception, because the registry bills us the moment a name goes live, which makes them non-refundable.
Run your own test from Ireland
You get thirty days to benchmark it against your real audience. If the numbers fall short, claim your money back.
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